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Michael Nylan

Michael Nylan

Berkeley Book Chats
Feb 6, 2019
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Michael Nylan, Podcast, 2019_0.pdf133.88 KB

In The Chinese Pleasure Book (Zone, 2018), Michael Nylan (History) takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and the health of the body politic. In notable contrast to Western writings on the subject, early Chinese writings oppose pleasure not with pain but with insecurity.

Nylan is joined by Hans Sluga (Philosophy).

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